Improvement in cotton-seed planters



' construction.

UNI EDF T y PETER E. SMITH, OF SOOTLAND NECK, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-SEED PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,123, dated May 23, 1871. r

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER E. SMITH, of Scotland Neck, in the county of Halifax and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Seed Planter and l Guano Distributer; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying-drawing forming part of this. specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of my improved machine, parts being broken away to, show the construction. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, parts being broken away to show the Fig. 3 is a detail cross-section of the furrowing-plow taken through-the line a: as, Fig. 2. V

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. r

Myinvention relates to cotton-seed planters and manure-distributers, and my object is to introduce certain improvements thereon, which I will first describe in connection with all that is necessary to a full understanding thereof, and then clearly point out in my claim.

A is the frame of the machine, consisting of two side bars connected at their rear ends by a single cross-bar, and at their front ends by two cross-bars, to furnish a substantial support for the tongue B and for the standards of the furrowing-plow. O is the shoe of the furrowing-plow, the rear end of which is securely attached to the lower end of the standard D, and the forward end of which is detachably attached to the standard or cutter E. The lower end of the standard or cutter E isbent forward, and has a point formed upon it to open the furrow, the sides of which are pressed apart by the V-shaped lower part of the shoe 0. This construction of the stand receive the seed to be always of the same depth. The outeredges of the side win gs of the shoe 0 are turned upward, or have upwardlyprojecting flanges formed upon them, to prevent the soil from flowing in upon the top of said shoe, and also to enable side boards to the edge of the disk Gr is attached the outer edge of the casing I, the inner part of which is attached to the inner edge of the ring-wheel J, so that the said wheel may be in the centralline of the machine and may roll along the furrow opened by the furrowingplow G D E. To the edge of the disk His attached the outer edge of the casing K, the inner edge of which overlaps the inner edge of the casing I,- or of a piece attached to said casing I. In the overlapped edges of the casings I Kis formed a series of openings, as shown in Fig. 2, so that by slightly turning the casing K upon the casing I the size of the discharge-openings may be adjusted at will, or as the size or character of the seed to be dropped or the fertilizer to be distributed may require. To the inner edge of the movable casing K are attached ears K, which project up along the side of the wheel J, and are slotted transversely to receive a bolt attached to said wheel, and provided with a hand-nut, so that the movable casing K, when adjusted, can be securely fastened in place. The casings I K are made with a bilge, somewhat similar to the bilgeof a barrel, to cause the contents of the dropper to always pass to the discharge openings. In one side of the stationary cas ing I is formed a door, hinged at its outer edge, and secured at its inner edge by a hasp and staple, for convenience in putting in the seed or fertilizer. ward ends of which are attached to the side bars of the frame A, and which are supported in position by standards M, as shown in Fig. 1. To the projecting ends of the journals of the shaft F are pivoted the forward ends of the bars N, to the rear endsof which is at tached the block or drag O, by which the seed L are the handles, the foris covered, and the lower side of which is conapertures, and both turning together to drop caved to give the proper form to the top of the seed in the manner described.

the ridge or row. The above specification of my invention Having thus described my invention, I signed by me this 6th day of July, 1870. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters PETER E. SMITH. Patenti A rotary seed'hopper, formed of two over- Witnesses: lapping and closed tubes, I K, one movable GEO. W. MABEE,

around the other, to adjust the size of the seed- JAMES T. GRAHAM. 

